Moving with the times
A petition from residents of Evansdale requested that the school should be shifted to Warrington, the argument in support of the application being that the great majority of the children attending the school lived at Warrington.
Missionary: ban it for us
There was a large audience in the Roslyn Theatre last night, when a strong appeal for prohibition for the sake of the Maoris was made by Rev Robert Haddon, a Maori missionary.
Mr Haddon reviewed the history of the Maori people, whom he referred to as fellow British subjects. When the British first came to New Zealand the Maoris were free from the use of alcohol, their only drink being the pure water. They were men of strength, clearness of mind, and keenness of vision. When the early traders came they brought with them liquor, which was introduced to the Maoris. The latter gave it the name of "waipero," which means "stinking water." This showed they did not like it at first. The liking came later. The Treaty of Waitangi guaranteed to the Maoris fullest protection. All the great chiefs had been loyal to the treaty and to the British, even when some of their countrymen entered into war, and in the recent Great War Maoris fought side by side with their white brothers at Gallipoli and in France. He wanted to know were they not worth saving. The drink had been poured into his people, and they had no vote either for or against the liquor. His own tribe had sold their lands for £42,000, which was divided up amongst the families of the tribe, and practically every penny of the money went over the bars. Liquor got such a hold over the people that a petition was presented by himself to Parliament, with the result that the sale of wholesale quantifies to the Maoris was prohibited. But the law was broken; not by the Maoris, but by the Pakehas who sold the liquor. There was plenty of evidence of this. He appealed on behalf of his people. They had not the vote. He wanted the Pakehas to vote for them, and for the sake of the Maoris and for the sake of the next generation to free the country from the tyranny of the liquor traffic.
Poor reception in Ocean Grove
When they are told by others fishing stories sometimes go against the fisherman. An instance of the kind comes under notice in which two young men set out for the Tomahawk Lagoon, where one of them was intensely surprised when he hooked a fish of between 2 and 3 pounds weight. Imagining that the lagoon contained only small fry, the fishermen had omitted to bring a net, and their efforts to land the catch with their hats caused much amusement to several bystanders, who were attracted by the unusual scene. Eventually the fish escaped, much to the disappointment of the two sports. The next afternoon they went out armed with a net, but no fish were biting.
Trammies play in Queens Gardens
Considerable interest in the first public appearance of the Dunedin Tramways Band was manifested by lovers of band music last evening, when, resplendent in their new uniforms, the performers were watched and listened to by a fairly large crowd in the Triangle.
Wisely, the band did not attempt anything too ambitious, but that does not imply a mediocre performance.
On the contrary, all the items proved most enjoyable, and the crowd was not slow to show its appreciation.
Signs were not lacking that the band promises to take its place among the leading local providers of this class of music.— ODT, 19.10.1922
